
"One cannot live without love."
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Geoffrey Firmin

Yvonne Firmin

Hugh Firmin

Dr. Vigil

Senora Gregoria

Brit

Quincey
Bustamante

Gringo
Dwarf
Chief of Gardens

Chief of Stockyards

Chief of Municipality

Maria
Diosdado

Cervantes
Few Fleas

Sinarquista

Latin Consul
Chicken Lady
Transvestite
Concepta
Matador
Don Juan Tenorio
Doña Ines

Bus Driver
Passenger
Dead Indian
Horseman
Second Horseman
Herr Krausberg (German Attaché) (uncredited)

(uncredited)